- ...that the Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg is the oldest Olympic speed skating champion, winning gold at the 1928 St Moritz games at the age of 35?
- ...that Mina Wylie won silver at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, and was one of the first two women to represent Australia in Olympic swimming?
- ...that Mikhail Shtalenkov enjoyed a stellar career, including the win of a silver medal in hockey in the 1998 Winter Olympics, but never became a starting goaltender in the National Hockey League?
- ...that Australian sprinter Stan Rowley is the only Olympic participant to win medals for two countries at the same Olympic Games?
- ...that canoe racer Josefa Idem, a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist for West Germany, later took an Italian citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?
